title: [Study of the psychometric properties of the CES-D in a sample of French-speaking adolescents].
abstract: The aim of this paper is to study and validate the French version of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale developed by Radloff (in 1977) in an adolescent sample. This scale was developed to measure levels of depressive symptomatology, with special emphasis on the affective components and depressed mood.
  
  
  METHODS
  The data used in this study were collected in 11 schools. Our sample was composed of 1496 French-speaking, Belgian secondary school students aged 12 to 16 years. The questionnaire included demographic information such as age, gender, grade and family composition. The position of the CES-D scale has not changed and was placed in the last part of the self-administered questionnaire.
  
  
  RESULTS
  After an exploratory factor analysis, we conducted confirmatory factor analysis to test our factor model. We tested the model with four factors proposed by Radloff (in 1977) and also the model proposed by Chabrol (in 2002). Our results indicate a better match with Radloff's model in our sample, showing the relevance of using Radloff's model with four factors in adolescents. Although our analysis shows a clear gender difference with regard to depressive symptoms, the tested factor model remained stable regardless of the gender of the adolescent.
authors.affiliation: Département de psychologies et cliniques des systèmes humains, 3, boulevard du Rectorat, B33, 4000 Liège, Belgique. Electronic address: Aurore.Boulard@ulg.ac.be.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Boulard
authors.affiliation: Département de psychologies et cliniques des systèmes humains, 3, boulevard du Rectorat, B33, 4000 Liège, Belgique.
authors.forename: J-M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Gauthier
authors.affiliation: Département de psychologies et cliniques des systèmes humains, 3, boulevard du Rectorat, B33, 4000 Liège, Belgique.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Born
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001530:Belgium; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014175:Translating
keywords: Adolescence; CES-D; Depression; Dépression; Propriétés psychométriques; Psychometric properties; Échelle CES-D